I Have Dreamed

I Have Dreamed

Minneapolis-based Connie Evingson combines her experience in musical theater with her jazz singing in <I>I Have Dreamed</I>, a 55-minute set of Broadway standards backed by a crack ensemble. If there's a fault here, it's that the selections seem a little too safe--an overreliance on <I>My Fair Lady</I> and Rodgers and Hammerstein tunes that we've heard umpteen times before. That's probably why the highlight is a searing take on <I>The Golden Apple</I>'s "Lazy Afternoon," with guitar and percussion providing her only accompaniment. Evingson fans will want this CD, but novices would do better to start with her more straightforward jazz releases, <I>Fever: A Tribute to Peggy Lee</I> and <I>Some Cats Know</I>. <I>--David Horiuchi</I>